This book provides a ground breaking re-examination of the changing relationship between art, craft, and industry focusing on the transition from workshop to studio, apprentice to pupil, guild to gallery and artisan to artist. Responding to the question whether the artist is a relic of the feudal mode of production or is a commodity producer corresponding to the capitalist mode of cultural production, Beech reveals, instead, that the history of the formation of art as distinct from handicraft, commerce, and industry can be traced back to the dissolution of the dual system of guild and court. This essential history needs to be revisited in order to rethink the categories of aesthetic labour, attractive labour, alienated labour, nonalienated labour and unwaged labour that shape the modern and contemporary politics of work in art.
| ISBN: | 9781642594232 |
| Publication date: | 27th July 2021 |
| Author: | Dave Beech |
| Publisher: | Haymarket Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Series: | Historical Materialism Book Series |
| Genres: |
The arts: general topics Philosophy: aesthetics History of art Political ideologies and movements Industrial relations, occupational health and safety |
This book provides a ground breaking re-examination of the changing relationship between art, craft, and industry focusing on the transition from workshop to studio, apprentice to pupil, guild to gallery and artisan to artist. Responding to the question whether the artist is a relic of the feudal mode of production or is a commodity producer corresponding to the capitalist mode of cultural production, Beech reveals, instead, that the history of the formation of art as distinct from handicraft, commerce, and industry can be traced back to the dissolution of the dual system of guild and court. This essential history needs to be revisited in order to rethink the categories of aesthetic labour, attractive labour, alienated labour, nonalienated labour and unwaged labour that shape the modern and contemporary politics of work in art.
Art and Labour features in the following genres: The arts: general topics, Philosophy: aesthetics, History of art, Political ideologies and movements, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety
Art and Labour is available in Paperback
Art and Labour was written by Dave Beech and published by Haymarket Books
Art and Labour has 304 pages
Yes it is part of Historical Materialism Book Series series
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